So I have decided bellies of this size really need to have some kinda of warning system. Kinda like kids at a theme park and if they are too small to go on a ride, but in this case, a warning the belly is too big to fit somewhere!!
I had a burst of energy this morning and have gone crazy with the cleaning again. Pottered around for a while just picking stuff up, doing washing etc, then I decided it was time to tackle the en-suite. I started in the shower, as hard as it was to get down on my hands and knees in that little spot I did eventually manage. Then the vanity, then the walls, then came the toilet. Now I keep the toilet clean but very rarely do I get down and clean behind it and under the pipes etc. Well when I looked behind I could not believe how dirty it was! Here comes the delema, I could see this dirt, it was so yuck I wanted to clean it all, make it spotless, problem was when I went to reach behind there I couldn't reach! hmpt! I was determined there was no way there was going to be any remaining dirt so with some very inventive maneuvers I did manage to get it all! Even funnier was I was in my undies! lol! I could imagine what a sight that would have been, 9 months pregnant and blue pokka dot undied bum up in the air grunting and groaning to reach behind the toilet to get some dirt! Ah pregnancy so dignified!
It did make me very tired lol, but I am still determined to do so much more today, I just need a rest. So I have had some early lunch to refuel and then watch out the rest of the house!
Other than that still having those round ligament pains, mainly in the morning when I am just getting started on things and starting to move around so seems like its just muscular!
32days to go. Still hoping its less but residing to the fact I might go over and if that is the case so be it. :) We will still eventually get to meet our little peanut. YAY!
Berry
Tyler
Blake
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
35+2
Haven't really been up for posting lately, been very tired and not feeling very well. Starting to feel like I will go over now and that its all still so very far away.
I have been very slack with the epi-no the last few nights I just haven't felt well enough to use it. Bubby was quiet on Sunday and Monday but active yesterday. A little quiet again today. All this of course has me worried sick. I can't stop thinking about still births etc. I check its heart rate with the Doppler regularly and its fine not high not low or anything like that just sitting where it always is.
I know its getting close 4.5weeks to go yet it all still feels like a dream at the moment. I can't shake what I am feeling, I haven't been in the baby's room for over a week. I know I am not sleeping and DH and I have been fighting lots which isn't helping so maybe its just everything put together.
I don't feel nervous about the birth, or what it will be like when bub comes home, it all just feels very surreal like its happening to someone else. Maybe I should go have a long nap and see if I wake up feeling better.
My belly still hasn't popped out anymore so I haven't bothered to take another pic. Maybe I will get the energy to at some point.
The stress of home is getting to me too. I honestly don't know what to do there. I know we need to sell but its such a bad time and I just don't feel like dealing with the stress of it all, the open homes the people coming in and out the having to keep it constantly clean, with a new born that will almost be impossible in my house. We have 3 living areas, kitchen of course, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and a study in the main living area of the house and a big rumpus room, another room not sure what you call it people before us had their home business there, another bathroom and toilet, and a sauna at the other end of the house. I have enough trouble keeping the main area clean let alone the extended areas. All this in mind though I know selling and buying a smaller house on a smaller block will relieve us financially but all in my mind we have a new born coming do I want to do this now? Then I think DH's business is taking off but from week to week we have no idea if he will or wont get work. This isn't from a lack of him trying, he is working his arse off to get work in the door, but sometimes it just doesn't happen, people can't always afford things, and at this point we have enough money to pay bills until mid September then what do we do? I can't go back to work. We lived of my one wage for around 7 months which was fine, but my degree meant I had a higher paying job, if DH has to go back to work I am not sure his one wage will cover all the out goings in this big house. Even if we did put it on the market, it might take months and months to sell, what then? We still have to pay bills.
DH promises me that he will bring in the money and I know he means it but it isn't something that is really in his hands. He does tons of quotes every week but its mainly people just inquiring as to how much it would cost to do something, not that they are wanting to follow through with it. Having this hanging over our heads is causing lots of tension. DH thinks I think he is a failure or something which isn't the case, so if I bring up the money issue its like I am pointing a finger at him that he isn't doing enough when simply its more that in 6 weeks we run out of money and something we need to sit down and discuss. I honestly just don't know.
I'm just too tired to deal with it.
On the pregnancy note TMI alert, Sunday morning I don't know if I lost my mucus plug over night. I wear boxers to bed with no undies, and Sunday morning I got up and pottered around the house for a few hours in boxers and trackies. When I went to have a shower I noticed a bigish pink stain in my boxers, It was mostly dry but kinda wet. I hadn't felt wet at all that morning and I know the mucus plug is really mucusy but I have no idea what else it could have been?? I loose a lot of mucus at times but always clear this was definitely pink. I guess I will never know. Even if it was you can loose that weeks before labour begins in the first pregnancy.
The round ligament pain is getting worse. I get it high on the sides if you look at this picture its more where the ligament attaches to the side of the uterus not down low where they say you should feel it. Its sharp and lasts for a long time which when googling can happen, although I am yet to find anything that mentions the pain being high rather than low. I always get it when I walk but lately its been all the time and it doesn't go away unless I sit down.
I have increased my EPO to 2 tablets 3 times a day and my Raspberry leaf to 1x2g tablet 3 times a day. Unfortunately I think the RL has a lot to do with why I am feeling so ill of late. I was doing some googling yesterday and found out that RL is high in Tannins :( 5 years ago I found out the tannins in black tea and red wine are what were causing my debilitating migraines. I stopped drinking black tea (which I love) and red wine and hadn't had a migraine again. Until recently. I didn't think much of it, simply thought it was just part of this end of the pregnancy! I have been umming and ahhing whether or not to stop taking it, for the few weeks I have left surely I can just grit my teeth and bear it? The benefits RL offer during labour and recovery surely out way the migraines. I had suffered with them since I was 7 years old surely a few weeks wont hurt me. They are increasing in intensity and I know this is because the tannins are building up in my system.
Bubs is still head down which is good :) hasn't engaged yet although some days I can definitely tell its a lot lower than others. going to a walk helps to get it down lower. I have started doing some exercises on the fit ball when I get home from my walk. I don't think its doing much though because the ball needs pumping up, mainly I just find it a relief from the pubic symphysis pain I get. Sitting on the ball relieves the pain completely!
think that's about it my brain hurts!
I have been very slack with the epi-no the last few nights I just haven't felt well enough to use it. Bubby was quiet on Sunday and Monday but active yesterday. A little quiet again today. All this of course has me worried sick. I can't stop thinking about still births etc. I check its heart rate with the Doppler regularly and its fine not high not low or anything like that just sitting where it always is.
I know its getting close 4.5weeks to go yet it all still feels like a dream at the moment. I can't shake what I am feeling, I haven't been in the baby's room for over a week. I know I am not sleeping and DH and I have been fighting lots which isn't helping so maybe its just everything put together.
I don't feel nervous about the birth, or what it will be like when bub comes home, it all just feels very surreal like its happening to someone else. Maybe I should go have a long nap and see if I wake up feeling better.
My belly still hasn't popped out anymore so I haven't bothered to take another pic. Maybe I will get the energy to at some point.
The stress of home is getting to me too. I honestly don't know what to do there. I know we need to sell but its such a bad time and I just don't feel like dealing with the stress of it all, the open homes the people coming in and out the having to keep it constantly clean, with a new born that will almost be impossible in my house. We have 3 living areas, kitchen of course, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and a study in the main living area of the house and a big rumpus room, another room not sure what you call it people before us had their home business there, another bathroom and toilet, and a sauna at the other end of the house. I have enough trouble keeping the main area clean let alone the extended areas. All this in mind though I know selling and buying a smaller house on a smaller block will relieve us financially but all in my mind we have a new born coming do I want to do this now? Then I think DH's business is taking off but from week to week we have no idea if he will or wont get work. This isn't from a lack of him trying, he is working his arse off to get work in the door, but sometimes it just doesn't happen, people can't always afford things, and at this point we have enough money to pay bills until mid September then what do we do? I can't go back to work. We lived of my one wage for around 7 months which was fine, but my degree meant I had a higher paying job, if DH has to go back to work I am not sure his one wage will cover all the out goings in this big house. Even if we did put it on the market, it might take months and months to sell, what then? We still have to pay bills.
DH promises me that he will bring in the money and I know he means it but it isn't something that is really in his hands. He does tons of quotes every week but its mainly people just inquiring as to how much it would cost to do something, not that they are wanting to follow through with it. Having this hanging over our heads is causing lots of tension. DH thinks I think he is a failure or something which isn't the case, so if I bring up the money issue its like I am pointing a finger at him that he isn't doing enough when simply its more that in 6 weeks we run out of money and something we need to sit down and discuss. I honestly just don't know.
I'm just too tired to deal with it.
On the pregnancy note TMI alert, Sunday morning I don't know if I lost my mucus plug over night. I wear boxers to bed with no undies, and Sunday morning I got up and pottered around the house for a few hours in boxers and trackies. When I went to have a shower I noticed a bigish pink stain in my boxers, It was mostly dry but kinda wet. I hadn't felt wet at all that morning and I know the mucus plug is really mucusy but I have no idea what else it could have been?? I loose a lot of mucus at times but always clear this was definitely pink. I guess I will never know. Even if it was you can loose that weeks before labour begins in the first pregnancy.
The round ligament pain is getting worse. I get it high on the sides if you look at this picture its more where the ligament attaches to the side of the uterus not down low where they say you should feel it. Its sharp and lasts for a long time which when googling can happen, although I am yet to find anything that mentions the pain being high rather than low. I always get it when I walk but lately its been all the time and it doesn't go away unless I sit down.
I have increased my EPO to 2 tablets 3 times a day and my Raspberry leaf to 1x2g tablet 3 times a day. Unfortunately I think the RL has a lot to do with why I am feeling so ill of late. I was doing some googling yesterday and found out that RL is high in Tannins :( 5 years ago I found out the tannins in black tea and red wine are what were causing my debilitating migraines. I stopped drinking black tea (which I love) and red wine and hadn't had a migraine again. Until recently. I didn't think much of it, simply thought it was just part of this end of the pregnancy! I have been umming and ahhing whether or not to stop taking it, for the few weeks I have left surely I can just grit my teeth and bear it? The benefits RL offer during labour and recovery surely out way the migraines. I had suffered with them since I was 7 years old surely a few weeks wont hurt me. They are increasing in intensity and I know this is because the tannins are building up in my system.
Bubs is still head down which is good :) hasn't engaged yet although some days I can definitely tell its a lot lower than others. going to a walk helps to get it down lower. I have started doing some exercises on the fit ball when I get home from my walk. I don't think its doing much though because the ball needs pumping up, mainly I just find it a relief from the pubic symphysis pain I get. Sitting on the ball relieves the pain completely!
think that's about it my brain hurts!
Friday, August 5, 2011
good news
Well my sisters scan went well, my little niece or nephew is fine :) it had a nice strong heart beat and measurements were great. They couldn't locate a bleed or anything and it was only a little bit of light pink in mucus she said so it doesn't sound bad at all.
On other news we finally have both a girl and a boy name! YAY!!! We have had a girls name for ages. I love it but a boys name we were really really struggling with. Finally yesterday we came up with one we both like and both agree on. As we know what it will kinda look like so picking names to suit the face is something we can do. We may or may not change the names from here but I think we are finally happy with what we have! YAY its been 7 months of pain, the name is a massive massive deal! Very exciting! It makes it that little bit more real now. Looking so forward to meeting this little one and finding out if its a little she or little he! It could be anywhere from 3-6weeks!!
Walking is getting really really hard now. my 20min walk has turned into a 40min waddle! Bubs hasn't dropped yet its so far down the pressure on my cervix and things is incredible! I have found a way to get relief though, sitting on the fit ball. That for some reason takes all the pressure off.
Still using the Epi-no. Still only at around 8.5cm! Still a few weeks so thats OK but its still fairly painful at that size. I will keep working at it. Its definitely not the most enjoyable experience but I know I am doing it for a reason and it will be worth it in the end!
I took some pics of my belly today, a bit different to the normal ones so can't really compare but its bare belly! And one of my little stretch mark that I have named stretchy hehe! :)
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Milk!!!!!
Anyone got some milk because I want more!! MORE! MORE!!!
I can't get enough of it. I am drinking about 1.5L a day and I still want more!! I drink it to the point it makes me sick yet I still want more!!! it is driving me completely totally and utterly bonkers!!
Had a phone call from my sister just a little bit ago. She had some very light spotting this morning. She is 7+5 now! It doesn't sound to major but still a horrible scare. She is booked in for a scan at 12:30, I hope they find a little blog with a nice strong heart beat! She is living in Melbourne and her fiance in Darwin now, so she is going to the scan alone. I am hoping its only a scare but after loosing two I know how scary it is and I had DH there with me the whole way, to be going alone :( I would be there for her if I could but I can't fly any more :(
Watching that clock tick! waiting to hear the good news, please let it be good news. Ever since she told me she was pregnant I have been praying that she would just sail through and not have any of the issues that I did. I am still hoping and praying that is the case!
Will update later with hopefully good news!
I can't get enough of it. I am drinking about 1.5L a day and I still want more!! I drink it to the point it makes me sick yet I still want more!!! it is driving me completely totally and utterly bonkers!!
Had a phone call from my sister just a little bit ago. She had some very light spotting this morning. She is 7+5 now! It doesn't sound to major but still a horrible scare. She is booked in for a scan at 12:30, I hope they find a little blog with a nice strong heart beat! She is living in Melbourne and her fiance in Darwin now, so she is going to the scan alone. I am hoping its only a scare but after loosing two I know how scary it is and I had DH there with me the whole way, to be going alone :( I would be there for her if I could but I can't fly any more :(
Watching that clock tick! waiting to hear the good news, please let it be good news. Ever since she told me she was pregnant I have been praying that she would just sail through and not have any of the issues that I did. I am still hoping and praying that is the case!
Will update later with hopefully good news!
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
leaking
Oh and I forgot to mention in that post I just did, my boobs started leaking today lol was the weirdest feeling!!!!
OB Appointment
Well just got back from my appointment with Dr A. Unfortunately he had a bleeding placenta previa that was being prepared for surgery so I only got a few minutes of his time. Which was fine, I completely understand I just hope that lady and her baby are OK.
I briefly mentioned what I have been feeling but he didn't seem to concerned which was good. He did a quick scan for me and bub was being super super active which even he was surprised at. You could see my whole belly moving and big massive movements too not just jiggling. lol. Anyway he managed to get the measurements. Head is a week behind which is great news lol. Stomach is over a week ahead and legs are smack on. So over all measuring right on. It is now up to 2.5kg/5.5lb which is a gain of 1.6lb in 2 weeks!! the little fatty! hehe.
The massive growth spurt might explain why I have been feeling this way though. My belly hasn't popped out any more yet bub has expanded a heap, so its completely out of room and OMG feels it too. Also the extreme exhaustion, the tummy tenderness aches and pains period pain and back pain etc. bubs is still head down which was great news. I really do hope it stays there.
It was exciting to think though its only really a kg off its approximate birth weight now that's how close we are!! Very exciting!
I briefly mentioned what I have been feeling but he didn't seem to concerned which was good. He did a quick scan for me and bub was being super super active which even he was surprised at. You could see my whole belly moving and big massive movements too not just jiggling. lol. Anyway he managed to get the measurements. Head is a week behind which is great news lol. Stomach is over a week ahead and legs are smack on. So over all measuring right on. It is now up to 2.5kg/5.5lb which is a gain of 1.6lb in 2 weeks!! the little fatty! hehe.
The massive growth spurt might explain why I have been feeling this way though. My belly hasn't popped out any more yet bub has expanded a heap, so its completely out of room and OMG feels it too. Also the extreme exhaustion, the tummy tenderness aches and pains period pain and back pain etc. bubs is still head down which was great news. I really do hope it stays there.
It was exciting to think though its only really a kg off its approximate birth weight now that's how close we are!! Very exciting!
Monday, August 1, 2011
34w2d
So I have had an interesting couple of days. I am still feeling really unwell and out of sorts. I am not sure what it is. Yesterday I got up and was feeling OK, went shopping with my mum but whilst we were out I had two random contractions. I wasn't worried at all we were about to head home anyway. Once I got home I started vomiting and the braxton hicks were strong and constant. I also started getting period like pain. I went and spent the afternoon in bed as even though I can't wait to meet this little one its still a bit too early.
The braxton hicks and period type cramps continued through till this morning, but have all eased off now. I still feel unwell and still have some cramps going on. I figure it is just my body starting to gear up for what is to come. Bub still hasn't fully dropped yet as I still have no room in my stomach so I figure I am not going to go into labour any time soon.
I have an appointment with Dr A tomorrow so I will bring it up with him then. I have been getting really bad headaches as well which aren't helping. I couldn't imagine still being at work at this point!
The exciting thing is its either going to be this month or next month and I will have a baby!! So exciting!
Everyone in my Due in Sept group that is about the same stage as me has been having their follow up appointment for 34/36weeks and so many of them have turned into the breach position. I still feel like bub is in the same position it has been for weeks but to think that even this late stage it could turn around again is scary. Just have to keep up with my normal routine in hope to keep bub where it should be.
2 more weeks and bub can come when ever it wants :)
The braxton hicks and period type cramps continued through till this morning, but have all eased off now. I still feel unwell and still have some cramps going on. I figure it is just my body starting to gear up for what is to come. Bub still hasn't fully dropped yet as I still have no room in my stomach so I figure I am not going to go into labour any time soon.
I have an appointment with Dr A tomorrow so I will bring it up with him then. I have been getting really bad headaches as well which aren't helping. I couldn't imagine still being at work at this point!
The exciting thing is its either going to be this month or next month and I will have a baby!! So exciting!
Everyone in my Due in Sept group that is about the same stage as me has been having their follow up appointment for 34/36weeks and so many of them have turned into the breach position. I still feel like bub is in the same position it has been for weeks but to think that even this late stage it could turn around again is scary. Just have to keep up with my normal routine in hope to keep bub where it should be.
2 more weeks and bub can come when ever it wants :)
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